Apple Releases OS X 10.11.1 El Capitan With New Emoji, Mail Improvements and Office 2016 Bug Fix

[chabig]

So, literally 30 seconds after the update installed I received the now familiar "Outlook has quick unexpectedly" message. Windows 10 is starting to look really good

And you never stopped to think that Microsoft might be the culprit? Office on Mac (and Microsoft in general, in my opinion) has a history of ****** programming.

 

[Shirasaki]

You dared to open "a few!?" I can't go past 2 without a crash, I have't tried more than 3. It's really annoying because I use it daily and it will just freeze.

I believe I have tried opening more than 2 files in preview at once. Picture.

And I have a habit to close any preview window opened after completing reviewing.

My Mac has only 4GB of RAM, so if it goes that crazy, my El Capitan would become totally unusable.

 

[George Dawes]

Mail has been utterly borked by this latest update .. it's never ending updating your library mode.. been like that for almost half an hour now

Is this a known problem ???

 

[Benjamin Frost]

I'm an iTunes Match user, but I do not use Apple Music. I upgraded to El Cap 10.11.0 from Yosemite with zero problems. I will not join Apple Music for precisely the reasons you've stated. I've put too much effort into my music library's meta data and cover art.

Thanks a lot for the feedback; that's very helpful.

 

[5aga]

this update was not kind. I had to do an internet restore due to continuous kernel panics

 

[RightMACatU]

Thanks for all the feedback on 10.11.1. I'll be sticking with 10.10.5 for a while longer.

 

[Benjamin Frost]

Another elite techie that thinks he's the reference standard model human being by which all others must be judged.

Words are cold and sterile. Emoticons appeared (necessity being the mother of invention and all that) to solve that problem. Emoji is simply an official Unicode graphical update to the less than pretty original emoticon.



Well... In future you'll know not to mess with a functioning system when you need to get work done. Sadly, the computer industry is a disaster (that almost no one is willing to honestly admit), and this kind of crap is "standard behavior". Never trust your productivity to an "upgrade".



I use that app constantly. I haven't upgraded from Mavericks yet, and I still see nothing but backwards motion on OS X since Yosemite. This just compounds my reluctance to upgrade. My music studio boot volume is still on Snow Leopard and it'll already cost me lost hardware to move past it due to bastards like M-Audio and Avid dumping $1500+ hardware in the divestment of M-Audio to InMusic.

I agree with you re emojis.

Text on a screen is cold and sterile, as you say. When we hand wrote everything, words were much more human and personal. Emojis help to compensate for that detachment.

 

[MagnusVonMagnum]

I set the update to go ahead on its own before I went to work. I came back and to my complete shock and surprise, iZotope RX 2.0 works again. I'm in utter disbelief that Apple actually fixed something they broke for once (no idea if it didn't work in Yosemite since I didn't use it). SIP things like M$'s mouse driver and XtraFinder still don't work, of course without disabling SIP first (but they CAN work with a bit of extra effort or just leave SIP off period like all prior versions of OS X if you don't mind the terrible "risk" of regular UNIX file handling....OMG! )

 

[macduke]

It means like Final Cut Pro, they decided to "redesign" Disk Utility from scratch (in this case for no good reason, IMO) and either they forgot to put all the features of the old one in or they purposely removed it. The functionality still exists, but you have to use the Terminal (command line) instead now to do anything. Maybe the makers of Soft Raid asked them to so they could charge $179 for a GUI version.

Oh ok. That's surprising though as I see more consumer RAID solutions on the market today than I ever have in the past. I don't mind dealing with the command line as long as there is a clear tutorial I can follow. I don't often have to format the drives, but this sucks for users who are less technically advanced and want fast storage for cheap. I guess SSDs are the way forward, and are more reliable, but dang there's no way I could get a 4TB portable SSD, even at the slow (by comparison) 250MB/s rates of my RAID 0 drive. And most people can't be expected to keep consistent backups like I do. So it's not the best consumer option.

 

[b0fh666]

upgraded one MBP and the installer did not touch my SIP configuration (which is disabled hehe).

good.

 

[DEMinSoCAL]

And you never stopped to think that Microsoft might be the culprit? Office on Mac (and Microsoft in general, in my opinion) has a history of ****** programming.

Office works (and has always worked) well on Windows. Ask any business. I think that was the point, not finger pointing at OS X.

 

[MrUpload1000]

You can add network drives to login items if you want them to auto connect at startup.

Thanks for the help, but Time Machine can access it just fine for backup. I only access our converted DVDs on it, so I can live with the small workaround that I use.

 

[noisycats]

Apple today released OS X 10.11.1, which is the first update to the new El Capitan operating system that was launched to the public on September 30. In testing since mid-September, OS X 10.11.1 is a minor performance update that focuses on fixing bugs found in the first version of El Capitan.

The OS X 10.11.1 update can be downloaded through the Software Update mechanism in the Mac App Store and it is available to all users who are running OS X El Capitan.

According to the release notes, OS X 10.11.1 fixes several major bugs that El Capitan users have been experiencing since the software was released. It improves compatibility with Microsoft Office 2016, addressing ongoing crashing issues that Office 2016 users have run into. There are also two fixes for Mail issues. OS X 10.11.1 also introduces support for Unicode 7 and 8, adding new emoji that include taco, burrito, cheese wedge, middle finger, hot dog, popcorn, and unicorn head. These emoji are also included in iOS 9.1.

Article Link: Apple Releases OS X 10.11.1 El Capitan With New Emoji, Mail Improvements and Office 2016 Bug Fix

Yay! And I can start using the hotdog instead of the eggplant!!

 

[Djbpwny]

Apple are you done with adding emojis?

As long as Unicode keeps adding emoji to the spec, Apple will eventually update to add compatibility for them. They'll do it at their own pace, of course, but they'll eventually have full Unicode support for all characters.

 

[danckwerts]

A bitter disappointment. Not only does the new update not correct the SMTP problem introduced in 10.11, it even reintroduces the problem to the accounts I had re-entered.

 

[veggiedude]

I have iTunes Match and don't wish to use Apple Music.

If anyone can tell me truthfully that my iTunes metadata like Play Counts, Last Played and DRM status won't get messed up in 10.11.1, I'd be very grateful. It's the one thing holding me off upgrading to El Capitan.

I just checked and it kept my all play counts. Dunno how to check for last played or DRM status. If I do a get info on a track it does have a last played date. I thought DRM was gone now - my tracks reside on iCloud and doesn't that strip them of DRM?

I have a new iPod touch. It would stop playing tracks in playlists. That problem is gone.

 

[Didjt]

I just checked and it kept my all play counts. Dunno how to check for last played or DRM status. If I do a get info on a track it does have a last played date. I thought DRM was gone now - my tracks reside on iCloud and doesn't that strip them of DRM?

I have a new iPod touch. It would stop playing tracks in playlists. That problem is gone.

 

[Didjt]

Mail is still broken. I have a business that is in disarray and only one workable Apple Mac at home out of four because I restored to Yosemite. What the hay is going on?
Does anyone have any hopeful news about proper fixes rather than new emoji's?

 

[asiga]

(double post)

 

[asiga]

Almost 30 minutes (on an i3 iMac with HDD) to install the update from 10.11.0 to 10.11.1. I still remember when a Tiger update wouldn't take more than 5 minutes on my old G5 iMac. It's getting more and more obvious that Apple is losing the great advantage it had over all competitors. Man, this update would take hours to install on a PowerPC... what's the install doing? Is it compiling the whole OSX source from scratch or what????

 

[felt.]

Time for an SSD, update took few minutes.

 

[bosco44]

Apple today released OS X 10.11.1, which is the first update to the new El Capitan operating system that was launched to the public on September 30. In testing since mid-September, OS X 10.11.1 is a minor performance update that focuses on fixing bugs found in the first version of El Capitan.

The OS X 10.11.1 update can be downloaded through the Software Update mechanism in the Mac App Store and it is available to all users who are running OS X El Capitan.

According to the release notes, OS X 10.11.1 fixes several major bugs that El Capitan users have been experiencing since the software was released. It improves compatibility with Microsoft Office 2016, addressing ongoing crashing issues that Office 2016 users have run into. There are also two fixes for Mail issues. OS X 10.11.1 also introduces support for Unicode 7 and 8, adding new emoji that include taco, burrito, cheese wedge, middle finger, hot dog, popcorn, and unicorn head. These emoji are also included in iOS 9.1.

Article Link: Apple Releases OS X 10.11.1 El Capitan With New Emoji, Mail Improvements and Office 2016 Bug Fix

 

[bosco44]

I too installed 10.11.1 and its been a disaster. My mail keeps crashing and my calendar does the same. am i the only one that get this to work?

 

[jennyp]

Installed this update and Mail is completely unresponsive.

EDIT after force-quitting Mail comes back to life.

 

[Loudwater]

The funny thing I got after updating was: the system language lost all my default list (Canadian English, Simplified Chinese, and German), and changed it to American English only. Not a difficult fix, but interesting... lol